Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics, Director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets and Co-Director of the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project at the Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation at University Of Pennsylvania

  • Fellow, Monetary Economics and Fluctuations
  • RPN Member, Fintech and Digital Currencies
Website
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde is Howard Marks Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Research Fellow of Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow at the NBER. He is on the editorial board of the International Economic Review. His research has focused on the computation and estimation of DSGE models and in economic history.

Publications 

Latest contributions 

Italian workers
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VoxEU Column

Accounting for the duality of the Italian economy

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  • Europe's nations and regions
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  • Poverty and Income Inequality
Map or Europe and Asia
VoxEU Column

The fractured land hypothesis: Why China is Unified but Europe is not

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  • Economic history
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  • Politics and economics